Type R - Matt
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Jon if you want to do a Bedford day send me a message, should be able to get you on one for a reasable price, sorted out Mark, Mike and Fran.
You will have to see if you can stay ahead of me in my near standard Elise :xhaha:
I drove a DC5 on track in the wet with the B/S's, they felt fine to me, I know it sounds daft but if you can get some heat into them they are fine, I mess around with pressures all the time on track, as the weather is never the same. I havent driven a DC5 with Toyo's but they were truely awful in the dry, tramlined everywhere, on track they grip, grip, go, similar to a slick.
I think it is down to the rubber moving, as the whole pattern distorted on mine, its the same as the SO2, great in the wet, then show it a dry road, track (Ive seen many a scoob damaged driving SO2's on track), and the pattern starts moving, grip, grip, no feeling, kitty litter, what the feck happened, oh that will be the tyres then.
I would go for Dunlop's, the Yoko's are generally quite soft, OK on a Caterfield, Elise type car, but not good on a saloon, I have forgotten what the track tyre is called, I used Dunlop's (Slicks & Cut Slick) on my EK9, fantastic tyres.
If you are going to be running stickier rubber I would strongly advise coilovers, combination of the 2 and I really can't see anything being much quicker, the problem is then you need to start thinking of the extra stress on the drivetrain, ie Clutch, syncros, LSD, and I think if I went to Slicks/Cut Slicks in a Saloon type car, consider a cage.
What I did was buy a second set of alloys, bought 2nd hand slicks, did a few days and realised, a) the brakes werent up to it, b) when they go they go, c) Im going to have to uprate the clutch and be more gentle with my gear changes.
You will have to see if you can stay ahead of me in my near standard Elise :xhaha:
I drove a DC5 on track in the wet with the B/S's, they felt fine to me, I know it sounds daft but if you can get some heat into them they are fine, I mess around with pressures all the time on track, as the weather is never the same. I havent driven a DC5 with Toyo's but they were truely awful in the dry, tramlined everywhere, on track they grip, grip, go, similar to a slick.
I think it is down to the rubber moving, as the whole pattern distorted on mine, its the same as the SO2, great in the wet, then show it a dry road, track (Ive seen many a scoob damaged driving SO2's on track), and the pattern starts moving, grip, grip, no feeling, kitty litter, what the feck happened, oh that will be the tyres then.
I would go for Dunlop's, the Yoko's are generally quite soft, OK on a Caterfield, Elise type car, but not good on a saloon, I have forgotten what the track tyre is called, I used Dunlop's (Slicks & Cut Slick) on my EK9, fantastic tyres.
If you are going to be running stickier rubber I would strongly advise coilovers, combination of the 2 and I really can't see anything being much quicker, the problem is then you need to start thinking of the extra stress on the drivetrain, ie Clutch, syncros, LSD, and I think if I went to Slicks/Cut Slicks in a Saloon type car, consider a cage.
What I did was buy a second set of alloys, bought 2nd hand slicks, did a few days and realised, a) the brakes werent up to it, b) when they go they go, c) Im going to have to uprate the clutch and be more gentle with my gear changes.
